Taman Negara Sungai Relau is located on the western side of Taman Negara in Peninsular Malaysia. The park was opened to the public in August 1993. The park office is 7 km from the small town of Merapoh. It is about 30 km to Gua Musang, Kelantan to the north and 100 km to Kuala Lipis to the south. Taman Negara Sungai Relau is the second access point for mountain climbing to Gunung Tahan. The route to Gunung Tahan is a mere 2 days as compared to the longer trek of 5 days from Kuala Tahan. A 14-km jeep trail links Sungai Relau to Kuala Juram, the foot hill for climbing Gunung Tahan. There are many forest trails in this part of Taman Negara. Among the popular trails are the Interpretive Trail, Negeram Trail, Palas Trail and Gua Gajah Trail. The 0.5km Interpretive Trail provides introduction to the rainforest and the ecosystem. The Negeram Trail follows the Sg Relau river and end at Pasir Gelanggang passing through lowland and swampy forest. The Palas Trail is about 1.6km long with some hilly terrain, peat swamp and lowland forest. The trail to Gua Gajah is about 5km long. Gua Gajah is a limestone outcrop and provides shelter for elephants during the monsoon. Inside Gua Gajah, there is a bats chamber where guano and bats are found. The low number of visitors has makes Taman Negara Sungai Relau a heaven for wildlife observation. The vast number of wildlife that has been sighted includes civet cat, mouse deer, barking deer, wild boar, binturong, gibbon, leopard cat, owl, panther and elephant. Bird watchers have a busy time watching more than 200 species of birds. Wildlife observation can also be carried out using the jeep along the plantation trail and the trail from Sg Relau to Kuala Juram. A sighting of wildlife can be a sure thing if you trek quietly along the trail. In our trip, beside the numerous birds, some of our members saw wildboars, civet cats and leopard cats. Elephants dung and wildboars footprints were abundant.